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Laboratory-determined Phosphorus Flux from Lake Sediments as a Measure of Internal Phosphorus Loading
Published on: March 6, 2014
[Spatial Distribution of Organic Phosphorus in Sediment and Its Environmental Implication in the Upper Stream of
Jian Xu1, Xu-Yin Yuan1,2, Hong-Meng Ye1,2
1College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China.
Abstract:
In order to explore the effect of land use pattern on phosphorus distribution and the potential release capacity of stream sediment in the upper Minjiang River, this paper presented organic phosphorus forms and their spatial distribution characteristics of sediments in the upper Minjiang River by using the IVANOFF method and discussing the effects of physicochemical properties of sediments on the distribution of organic phosphorus forms. The results show that:①nitrogen and phosphorus contents of sediments in Jianxi and Shaxi catchments are higher than those in the Futunxi catchment, probably related to the large number of farmland runoff and municipal sewage near the Jianxi and Shaxi catchments and the large forest area around the Futunxi catchment;②contents in the sediments from three catchments and TP contents in the sediments from Jianxi and Futunxi catchments showed the order of upper reaches < middle reaches < lower reaches, which may be caused by the mountainous and forested areas in the upper reaches and the intensive human activities in the middle and lower reaches;③nitrogen phosphorus in sediments of the three catchments were mainly non-active organic phosphorus, which indicated that upper reaches of the Minjiang river were generally less affected by external pollution, and the relative proportion of organic phosphorus in the sediments of different catchments was relatively large, while the change in different sections of the same river was relatively small;④physicochemical properties of sediments had a significant impact on the morphology and distribution of organic phosphorus, among which the effects of organic matter, TP, and TN were the most obvious, but the effects on sediments in different river basins were different. Therefore, to protect the water quality of the upper Minjiang River, it is necessary to strengthen the control of the living and agricultural pollution sources near the catchments.
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